Polemonium occidentale subsp. occidentale
Boreal Jacob's-Ladder
Polemonium boreale
Adams Species
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- Botanical name
- Polemonium boreale
- Also known as
- Boreal Jacob's-Ladder, Northern Jacob's-Ladder
- Family
- Polemoniaceae
- Genus
- Polemonium
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Boreal Jacob's-Ladder
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Polemonium boreale but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Polemonium arcticum
Polemonium boreale subsp. boreale
Polemonium boreale subsp. genuinum
Polemonium boreale subsp. humile
Polemonium boreale subsp. macranthum
Polemonium boreale subsp. nudipedum
Polemonium boreale subsp. richardsonii
Polemonium boreale var. boreale
Polemonium boreale var. hyperboreum
Polemonium boreale var. macranthum
Polemonium caeruleum var. humile
Polemonium caeruleum var. piliferum
Polemonium capitatum
Polemonium hultenii
Polemonium humile
Polemonium humile subsp. macranthum
Polemonium humile var. macranthum
Polemonium hyperboreum
Polemonium lanatum
Polemonium lanatum subsp. boreale
Polemonium lanatum var. humile
Polemonium lapponicum
Polemonium lapponum
Polemonium macranthum
Polemonium moschatum
Polemonium nudipedum
Polemonium onegense
Polemonium prostratum
Polemonium pulcherrimum subsp. hyperboreum
Polemonium richardsonii
Polemonium samojedorum
Polemonium speciosum
Others in Polemonium
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